Testing for an unusual distribution of rare variants

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Neale, Benjamin M ^a,b   Rivas, Manuel A ^a,b   Voight, Benjamin F ^a,b   Altshuler, David ^a,b,c   Devlin, Bernie ^d   Orho Melander, Marju ^e   Kathiresan, Sekar ^a,b,c   Purcell, Shaun M ^a,b   Roeder, Kathryn ^f   Daly, Mark J ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN B; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ARTICLE; C ALPHA TEST; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; POWER OF A TEST; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; ALGORITHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GENETIC VARIATION; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 79953752624     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1001322     Document Type: Article

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